MIKE Award Application &
Assessment Process
The MIKE Award follows a rigorous and transparent evaluation process designed to identify organizations that excel in Knowledge Management (KM) and Innovation Management (IM).
Step 1: Submit Your Application
Organizations complete the MIKE Award application form and provide evidence demonstrating their practices, achievements, and impact across the 10 MIKE evaluation criteria.
Step 2: Expert Review
Each application is independently assessed by an international panel of KM and innovation experts using a standardized evaluation framework.
Step 3: Feedback and Scoring
Reviewers evaluate the organization's strengths, achievements, and areas for improvement. Scores and comments are consolidated to ensure a fair and balanced assessment.
Step 4: Selection of Winners
Based on the review results, organizations achieving the required standards are recognized as MIKE Award winners. The highest-scoring organizations may be shortlisted for additional recognition.
Step 5: Finalist Presentations (if applicable)
To identify the most outstanding winners, selected finalist organizations may be invited to present their KM and innovation initiatives to a panel of experts and participate in a question-and-answer session.
Step 6: Announcement of Winners
Winning organizations are officially announced and recognized as members of the prestigious MIKE community of leading knowledge-driven and innovative enterprises.
Step 7: Benchlearning and Knowledge Sharing
MIKE Award winners gain access to a repository of proven practices and success stories from other winning organizations, creating valuable opportunities for benchmarking, benchlearning, and continuous improvement.
Rather than focusing solely on outcomes, the MIKE Award places greater emphasis on the underlying organizational capabilities that enable sustained innovation. Specifically, it examines the intellectual capital assets, management practices, and organizational processes that serve as the “innovation genes” of the enterprise.
The MIKE Award recognizes that long-term innovation excellence is built upon strong human, relational, structural, process, innovation and sustainability capital. By evaluating the practices, systems, and narratives that support knowledge creation, sharing, and application, the award seeks to identify organizations that have developed the foundations for continuous innovation and sustainable success.
For this reason, the MIKE Award adopts a practice-driven innovation framework grounded in Intellectual Capital theory, focusing on the organizational capabilities that consistently generate value and drive innovation over time.
The detailed description of the 10 MIKE assessment criteria can be found in the application form.
Get to know more about the creation and evaluation of the MIKE Award as featured in INside Innovation Section IV "The Innovative Journey from the MAKE to the MIKE" Edited by Dr. Alex Bennet and Dr. Rajat Baisya.
Chapter 11: The Innovative Journey from the MAKE to the MIKE
by Alex Bennet (Thailand and USA) with Reflections from Rory Chase (UK), Eric Tsui (Hong Kong), Francisco Javier Carrillo (Mexico) and Vincent Ribiere (Thailand)
Chapter 12: Exploring the Depth of the MIKE: An Intellectual Capital Practice-Based Study Program
by WB Lee (Hong Kong) with Reflections from Eric Tsui (Hong Kong)
Chapter 13: The Global MIKE Award: Striving for Excellence
by Vincent Ribiere (Thailand)
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